Hi Greg, On 03.02.2018 20:33, Grzegorz Zdanowski wrote: > Hi, > > Fiddling around I discovered vboxsf shares cannot be exported via NFS and the > only workaround is bindfs AFAIK. 8 years ago someone created a ticket (#5295) > describing this exact issue, but it didn’t get any love.
Probably because everyone instinctively thought that this doesn't sound like a good idea :D Re-exporting filesystems is in the general case a security concern. Which you may or may not consider an issue in your use case. There's no universal truth in this area, but it still makes devs hesitate. > I’m a programmer, but I never fiddled around the kernel. From what I found > Linux kernel will require defining "s_export_op“ in sf_read_super_aux() with > minimum of „fh_to_dentry" implementation in order to enable NFS export. This > seem to be a really small requirement, but I don’t really know where to start. > > Can you give me some hint or maybe someone more knowledgeable in kernel > internals can add s_export_op to superblock definition? Sorry, not my area either... Klaus > > Thanks, > -- > Greg _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
